5.5

CVE-2024-43868: riscv/purgatory: align riscv_kernel_entry

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-43868DEBIAN-CVE-2024-43868
Published 20-08-2024Last modified 11-05-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-43868 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 5.5, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.22%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 7 · Related 5
DLA-4008-1DSA-5818-1USN-7154-1USN-7154-2USN-7155-1USN-7156-1

Timeline

  1. 20-08-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv/purgatory: align riscv_kernel_entry When alignment handling is delegated to the kernel, everything must be word-aligned in purgatory, since the trap handler is then set to the kexec one. Without the alignment, hitting the exception would ultimately crash. On other occasions, the kernel's handler would take care of exceptions. This has been tested on a JH7110 SoC with oreboot and its SBI delegating unaligned access exceptions and the kernel configured to handle them.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.22%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

13%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.22% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Ubuntu93 products
  • linux< 6.8.0-50.51
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 6.8.0-1020.22
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 736e30af583fb6e0e2b8211b894ff99dea0f1ee7, < 10ffafb456f293976c42f700578ef740467cb569 | ≥ 736e30af583fb6e0e2b8211b894ff99dea0f1ee7, < 6e62dab357eea12db0fc62dea94c7a892888e6e8 | ≥ 736e30af583fb6e0e2b8211b894ff99dea0f1ee7, < 5d4aaf16a8255f7c71790e211724ba029609c5ff | ≥ 736e30af583fb6e0e2b8211b894ff99dea0f1ee7, < fb197c5d2fd24b9af3d4697d0cf778645846d6d5 | 5.19
  • linux_kernel≥ 5.19, < 6.1.117 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.61 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.10.4 | 6.11:rc1
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.119-1 | < 6.10.4-1

3 vendors · 96 products

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